The reason the Federal government doesn't shut down sites is because the vast majority of sites comply with the orders to give the government backdoors. Only the companies that don't are the ones that get shut down, and the CEOs end up in prison for unrelated crimes that the government just mysteriously gets evidence for.

They'll come for Voat, either legally or with a forged cert that lets them sniff the traffic via one of their Internet backbone wiretaps. They'll know the IP addresses of every poster that criticizes the US government, just like Reddit.

Except that a thirteen-year-old boy will forever remember the time that exploring his sexuality and acting like a kid got him arrested, and most likely he'll be bullied as a "rapist" for the rest of his school career. It should've resulted in nothing more than the boy cringing in humiliation whenever he thought of that time he tried to kiss a girl on a dare, and the girl rolling her eyes at the insult that someone below her perceived social standing tried to kiss her non-consensually.

Taking all bets: depression, medication, counseling, extended virginity, fear or hatred of authority/cops, anxiety, frustration channeled as hatred of women, suicide. Open-bet: how much you want to put down that the girl will now answer "yes" on any anonymous questionnaire that asks "females: have you ever been the victim of a sexual assault?" She'll probably just nod her head in blind agreement when her college orientation tells her that one in four women are sexually assaulted.

I think it's fair to say that this rhetoric triggers me. Why? Because it's exactly what we all heard on that other site. Whether casual or just a correlation, this type of talk preceded increased censorship, increased SJW presence, and an increased push by powermods to delete offensive content. If you're familiar with how white knights behave, none of these things should be surprising, and you're more likely to say that the call to put one gender over the other is what caused many of those changes.

I see Voat as gender neutral. In fact, this is the first time I've even wondered about the genders of the people to whom I'm replying. On Voat ideas, interests, passions, and hobbies should take precedence, and if women happen to be interested in those things, great! The more the merrier.

We don't need to target women, just like we don't need to target, say, people with dwarfism, or Native Americans, or Hispanic people. Also, Buzzfeed should die in a fire and we shouldn't be giving it clicks.

Or "we're so scared of outrage culture that even though it's just a scene with dick humor that appeals to kids, we're going to edit our movie because we really don't have an artistic vision, it's just a movie about an undercover dog cop for fuck's sake. But please don't destroy our movie, we want to make a few bucks."